O/S 1
O/S 2
O/S 3
O/S 4
O/S 4
100
A(n) ____ is software that controls a computer.
What is an operating system?
100
The recommended requirements to run Windows 2000 Professional include a ____ MHz Pentium-compatible processor.
What is 233MHz?
100
____ is an upgrade of Windows 2000.
What is Windows XP?
100
Windows XP Professional requires a minimum of ____ MB of RAM.
What is 64MB?
100
____ is code-named Longhorn.
What is Windows Vista?
200
____ was the operating system used by early versions of Windows, including Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11.
What is a DOS?
200
Linux is distributed by several different companies, whose versions of Linux are sometimes called ____.
What are distributions?
200
Applications written to provide a GUI shell for Unix and Linux are called ____.
What is an X Windows?
200
When a Mac is turned on, the ____ program is automatically launched and it provides the desktop.
What is a Finder?
200
Windows keeps some data in text files called ____ files.
What is an initialization?
300
____ offers a Recovery Console and a Command Prompt window where you use DOS-like commands.
What is Windows 2000/XP?
300
When each logical drive is formatted, a single directory table is placed on the drive called the ____.
What is a root directory?
300
Subdirectories are also known as ____.
What are folders?
300
When you refer to a drive and directories that are pointing to the location of a file, as in C:\wp\data\myfile.txt, the drive and directories are called the ____ to the file.
What is a path?
300
The method of using the hard drive as though it were RAM is called ____.
What is a virtual memory?
400
Windows NT corrected many problems with ____.
What are Windows NT, Windows XP, and Windows Vista?
400
A ____ on the desktop is an icon that points to a program you can execute, or to a file or folder.
What is a shortcut?
400
The ____ gives a graphical view of hardware devices configured under Windows and the resources and drivers they use.
What is a Device Manager?
400
The first operating system among IBM computers and IBM-compatible computers
What is a DOS?
400
Attempts to integrate Windows 9x/Me and 2000, while providing added support for multimedia and networking technologies
What is Windows XP?
500
Windows 2000 is an upgrade of ____.
What is Windows NT?
500
Located on the right side of the taskbar; displays icons for running services
What is system tray?
500
A popular OS used to control networks and to support applications used on the Internet
What is UNIX?
500
Developed by IBM and Microsoft; less common for home desktop PCs, but used in certain types of networks
What is OS/2?
500
The portion of the operating system that relates to the user and to applications
What is a shell?